United Nations General Assembly A/RES/60/222 Distr.: General 22 March 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 66 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2005 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.16/Rev.1 and Add.1)] 60/222. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 57/2 of 16 September 2002 on the United Nations Declaration on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Recalling also its resolution 57/7 of 4 November 2002 on the final review and appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s and support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and resolutions 58/233 of 23 December 2003 and 59/254 of 23 December 2004 entitled “New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support”, Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1 including the recognition of the need to meet the special needs of Africa, Bearing in mind that African countries have primary responsibility for their own economic and social development and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized, and also the need for their development efforts to be supported by an enabling international economic environment, and in this regard recalling the support given by the International Conference on Financing for Development to the New Partnership, 2 Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Panel on International Support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development entitled “From rhetoric to action: mobilizing international support to unleash Africa’s potential”, 3 _______________ 1 See resolution 60/1. See Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 3 See A/60/85. 2 05-50092